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Resources Sharing and Access Control in Group-oriented Networks: Fednet and Related Paradigms

Authors:
Malohat Ibrohimovna
Sonia Heemstra de Groot

Keywords: sharing resources, group-oriented networks, personal networks, federation of personal networks, access control.

Abstract:
A Personal Network (PN) is a network composed of devices of a person that can communicate with each other independently from their geographical location. Extra functionality in PNs enables the cooperation amongst different persons forming a group-oriented network called a Federation of Personal Networks (Fednet). A Fednet is a secure, opportunity or purpose driven ad-hoc network for sharing personal resources. A Fednet can be composed for applications in different areas, e.g. education, entertainment, business, emergency, etc. A number of group-oriented resource-sharing technologies for distributed environments have been reported in the literature, such as grids, Virtual Organizations, Secure Virtual Enclaves and P2P networks. All these technologies for sharing resources have their own peculiarity in the architecture, their implementation, and in the ways they control the access to shared resources. This paper provides a comparative overview of these technologies with our Fednet concept. In addition, a special attention is given to various approaches for controlling the access to shared resources in cooperative distributed environments, in particular grid environments. We discuss the details of these access control architectures, advantages and disadvantages of these approaches.

Pages: 203 to 225

Copyright: Copyright (c) to authors, 2009. Used with permission.

Publication date: June 7, 2009

Published in: journal

ISSN: 1942-2679